A defense of the sincere and true translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong against the manifolde cauils, friuolous quarels, and impudent slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the readers of popish diuinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes. By William Fvlke D. in Diuinitie, and M. of Pembroke haule in Cambridge. Wherevnto is added a briefe confutation of all such quarrels & cauils, as haue bene of late vttered by diuerse papistes in their English pamphlets, against the writings of the saide William Fvlke.

FVLK. 19. The first Bible was not that you meane, but not much differing from it, neither was it done in hast, but with as good cōsideratiō, as god gaue for that time: neither was it printed these 22. yeares, for ought I know, which you say is printed still a fresh. In that Bible

Herods seruaunts, put for the Herodians, was lacke of knowledge of what sect the Herodiās should be. Idiotas, Lay mē, is no more faulte, than, of the vulgar sort, which you say. The shippe for the Arke, is a smal fault, seing that arke into which Noe entred, was a ship, or in steede of a shippe. The wōdring, for the tumult, is a populer terme: for so they call a great noyse made by a multitude. The lampes are gone out, or are quenched, I know not what great difference may be in it. His substaunce 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, I know not where you meane, except it bee Marke. 13. where Erasmus noteth, that he hath redde in some co∣pie 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, substaunce, which seemeth to agree aptly with the place. In the texte Eph. 3. the true translation is as wee haue corrected it in the later editions: yet the wordes maye beare that other interpretation also. In Titus the firste, the participle is of the meane voyce, and therefore may signifie actiuely or passiue∣ly. In Gal. the transposition, Sina before Agar, see∣meth to be the faulte of the Printer, rather than of the translator.